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Katharina von Bora is a non-religious opera in three acts about the life of Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther, written by conductor and composer Mihai Valcu, lyrics by Bill Zeiger. It premiered on November 7, 2015, at the Will W. Orr Auditorium at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania , as a collaboration between New ...
Katharina von Bora was the daughter to a family of Saxon lesser nobility. [3] [4] [5] According to common belief, she was born on 29 January 1499 in Lippendorf, but there is no evidence of this in contemporary documents.
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The most famous example was the former nun Katharina von Bora, who married the reformer Martin Luther. Other examples were former abbess Charlotte of Bourbon, former abbess Katharina von Zimmern of Fraumünster Abbey in Zürich, and former abbess Birgitta Botolfsdotter of Vadstena Abbey in Sweden. [5]
The Last Supper (opera) The Last Temptations; Least Like the Other; Lessons in Love and Violence; Letters, Riddles and Writs; The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko; Lindy (opera) A Little Nightmare Music; Liu Hulan (opera) Lizzie Borden (opera) La Loca (opera) Lucio Silla
Luther married Katharina von Bora here on 13 June 1525, the service being conducted by his colleague and friend, Johannes Bugenhagen. [2] In 1547, during the Schmalkaldic War, the towers' stone pyramids were removed to make platforms for cannon. Despite the war, an altarpiece by Lucas Cranach the Elder was unveiled in the church. In 1556 the ...
Felix Mendelssohn used it as the theme for the fourth and final movement of his Symphony No. 5, Op. 107 (1830), which he named Reformation in honor of the Reformation started by Luther; Joachim Raff wrote an Overture (for orchestra), Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, Op. 127; Carl Reinecke quoted the hymn in his "Zur Reformationsfeier" Overture Op ...
[2] contained ten more songs, with seven of them placed at the end and two others following a song with the same melody. This edition was copied in hymnals in Zurich in 1528 and in Leipzig in 1530. [2] Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn has been called the root of all Protestant song music ("Grundstock aller evangelischer Liedmusik"). [11]